Age of Conquest Reborn

The war in the Liaodong Peninsula has subsided for three or four days. Although there is no news from Major General Katayama, the former chief of staff of the Seventh Army and later acting commander of the Seventh Army, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Nanjiro, knows

, I am afraid that Major General Katayama will also be shattered by the empire, and the Liaodong Peninsula will not be preserved.

The news that followed continuously confirmed his judgment. Zhuanghe fell, Xiongyue fell, Gaizhou fell, and Anton fell. The independent division troops that landed from Lushunkou made such rapid progress that they greatly surpassed General Nanjiro.

In his opinion, the remnants of the Seventh Army and more than 80,000 Manchurian Volunteer Team members can at least block the landing troops of the Independent Division in the Liaodong Peninsula for more than a week!

However, the development of the battle situation caught General Nanjiro unexpectedly. Within about four days, the front lines of the independent division troops were approaching Fengtian, while the troops forming the third line of defense south of Fengtian were still secretly

Among the mobilizations, the fastest force was only one division plus an independent mixed brigade to reach the area south of Fengtian. With only such a small force, General Nanjiro did not think that he could prevent the independent division from attacking Fengtian.

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Fengtian is the heartland of Manchukuo, and its military and economic value even exceeds that of Xinjing, the capital of Manchukuo. If Fengtian falls, Manchuria will be shaken, and Manchuria will be shaken, which will affect the imperial army in the Far East.

His Royal Highness Prince Zain, who personally commanded the battle, is familiar with

General Nanjiro, who was familiar with the inside story of politics, asked himself that he could not bear such a big responsibility. If a prince and more than 500,000 imperial soldiers were buried in the Far East because of the fall of Manchuria to the hands of that Chinese devil, he would be considered responsible.

Eight heads are not enough for His Majesty the Emperor to chop off!

General Nanjiro has called Prince Zairen several times and made sincere suggestions to immediately end the current stalemate with Liu Tiehan's East Command troops in the Far East. All the Imperial Far East dispatched troops will be withdrawn into Manchuria, and together with the Kwantung Army, they will help defend Manchuria.

Locally, this is the best policy.

Prince Zairen's reply fully affirmed General Nanjiro's suggestion, and he also planned to return to Manchuria. However, the key to the problem was that Liu Tiehan, deputy commander of the independent division, commanded an army of more than 600,000, tightly entangled

At this point in the war, Prince Zai Ren also fully understood that the purpose of Liu Tiehan's East Command troops was to drag the Far East Expedition Force to the Far East.

Although I understand in my heart, it is impossible to escape from the Far East with more than 500,000 troops dispatched to the Far East. I am afraid that as soon as the order to retreat is given, Liu Tiehan's troops will rush forward crazily.

A big melee is inevitable, and even the retreat of the Far East Expeditionary Force turns into a huge rout of being hunted down. If Liu Tiehan's 600,000-strong army rushes into Manchuria, and the Kwantung Army is attacked from the front and back by the independent divisions,

The results will also be disastrous.

Even Prince Zai Ren planned to mobilize part of his troops to defend Manchuria, but he was unable to do so. Although the full-line offensive launched by the East Point troops was not strong, it forced him to invest all his troops to resist, which lasted hundreds of kilometers.

The battlefield in the western part of the Breya Mountains is filled with gunpowder smoke and rumbling artillery fire all day long. If the troops are reduced at any point, they will face the risk of being broken through by the independent division troops.

Prince Zai Ren did not dare to take this risk, even though he knew that the situation of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria was not good. The Liaodong Peninsula war suffered successive defeats. The main force was defeated by three independent divisions in three directions.

The field regiment was so frozen that they could not move, but they could only act anxiously. In the reply to General Nanjiro, he did not shy away from explaining this point.

After reading the reply from Prince Zain, General Nanjiro could only sigh. It seems that during the Manchurian War, the Kwantung Army could only fight alone. Originally, the Far East Expeditionary Army was a very good strategic mobile corps, but now, it is in the Far East.

, turned into a dead chess piece, whose fault is this?

After confirming that the Liaodong Peninsula had been lost, General Nanjiro comprehensively analyzed the war situation in Manchuria, stayed up for several nights, and sent a long telegram to the base camp and His Majesty the Emperor. In the telegram, he elaborated in detail

The Kwantung Army in Manchuria is now facing

He suggested: "In view of the inevitable war in Manchuria and the dangerous situation faced by the Kwantung Army, in order to ensure that Manchuria will not fall, we kindly ask the base camp to give full consideration to increasing the number of troops in Manchuria, and not less than 400,000."

Human scale!”

He also wrote, "Manchuria is the rear base in the Far East. At present, our empire's Far Eastern Front has more than 500,000 troops, and the Independent Division's Eastern Command has more than 600,000 troops. It is not a good phenomenon to be in a stalemate in the Far East. Once the situation in Manchuria becomes critical,

, then the retreat of the troops sent to the Far East will be cut off, and it is really necessary to increase the number of troops in Manchuria!" General Nanjiro, it can be said that the lion's mouth is wide open, and he will have 400,000 troops at once.

General Nanjiro's telegram indeed shocked the Japanese base camp, and even Emperor Hirohito, and aroused great attention from the Japanese government and the public. But the key to the problem is that Japan's current war potential has almost reached its limit. The Australian battlefield in the Southwest Pacific will not be able to fight for a long time.

In a stalemate, the Southwest Pacific Expedition Force must ensure sufficient strength and maintain its advantage on the battlefield. Otherwise, it will be a disaster once the Allies are slowed down!

This is the southern battlefield, and on the Korean Peninsula battlefield, the commander of the North Korean garrison, General Tanaka Shinichi, sends several emergency telegrams to the base camp a day. Facing the fierce attacks from the independent division troops, General Tanaka's troops are holding on.

In need of more military support, five new divisions of troops have been formed in the mainland and will soon go to the battlefield on the Korean Peninsula. In the consciousness of the decision-makers at the base camp, the importance of the Korean Peninsula is no less important than that of Manchuria.

Soldiers are needed everywhere, but there are only so many local sources of troops. Now, the age for conscription of people for military service has been relaxed to men between sixteen and fifty years old. A large number of women have also been recruited to join the front-line combat troops, fighting hard.

Minato, now the big one

Almost all the people of the Japanese Empire were in arms. Fighting on the northern and southern fronts, and facing Tang Qiuli's independent divisions and allied forces at the same time, had made Japan's national power increasingly tense, not only in terms of military resources, but also in terms of materials needed to support the war.

Also unable to make ends meet.

What worries Emperor Hirohito and the base camp even more is that the American naval fleet seems to have gradually recovered from the initial blow. In 1940 alone, two new fleets were formed.

The core fleets are aircraft carriers, one is the East Pacific Fleet, and the other is the West Pacific Fleet.

In the vast Pacific Ocean, the task force commanded by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto can no longer run amok. In the recent naval battles, the Imperial Navy fleet and the U.S. fleet have been tied, which was not the case before.

, is impossible. Ever since the U.S. Pacific Fleet was uprooted by the Imperial Navy Task Force twice, American warships have not even dared to leave the port of San Francisco.

Once the advantage of the Imperial Navy Task Force in the Pacific is reversed, the impact on the Australian battlefield will be very serious, which means that the isolated Australian battlefield will re-open the connection with the United States, and a large number of Allied forces will

Soldiers and equipment will continue to be added to the Australian battlefield, which will be a disaster for the Empire's Southwest Pacific Expedition Force.

The Empire of Japan needs soldiers and generals on several battlefields, and it also needs to build guns, cannons, ammunition, aircraft and warships. Its national strength has been overwhelmed. That damn China devil chose this time to attack Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula.

A faint fear of launching an attack on the empire shrouded the hearts of Emperor Hirohito and the senior officials in the base camp. Although no one showed it, it was already growing in their hearts.

Despite this, everyone knew the consequences of losing Manchuria. After discussions with the headquarters, Emperor Hirohito decided to mobilize seven divisions from the troops defending the islands in the southwest Pacific, rush to Manchuria, and place them under the command of the Kwantung Army.

, which means

, the Japanese defense forces in Kalimantan Island, Sumatra Island, Luzon Island, Java Island, Irian Island and other places close to the Indochina Peninsula have shrunk to an extremely low level. The maximum number of troops in each place is no more than one division.

, are all newly formed third-rate divisions.

The so-called tearing down the eastern wall to repair the western wall is nothing more than this. After receiving a call back from the general staff of the base camp, General Nanjiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, had no plans for the seven divisions with more than 180,000 troops that were about to rush to aid Manchuria.

Showing too much excitement, water far away cannot quench the thirst nearby. He knows this. Even if the reinforcements mobilized from the Southwest Pacific are sent to Manchuria at the fastest speed, it will take at least more than a month to arrive.

This is not even counting the time for deployment after arriving in Manchuria. Can the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli, who is eyeing Manchuria and the Kwantung Army, give himself such a long time? General Nanjiro's answer is no, and the independent division will launch a massive

The attack on Manchuria will not take long. Maybe in early July, the three independent divisions stationed on the Manchurian border will launch an attack. Maybe after the war on the Korean Peninsula ends?

No matter what the situation was, it would not be too long before Tang Qiuli took action against Manchuria. Thinking of this, General Nanjiro was full of understanding and sympathy for General Tanaka, who was also a brother in trouble. Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula could have been each other's horns.

, but that China devil's strategy, the North and South routes took action at the same time, forcing the Kwantung Army and the North Korean garrison army to deal with the fierce attack, not to mention supporting each other, and protecting themselves now seems to be a problem.

Faced with the almost unsolvable crisis in Manchuria, General Nanjiro's political nature once again came into play. After sending a telegram about the war situation in Manchuria to Emperor Hirohito and the base camp, less than a day later, General Nanjiro again

Send a telegram to the base camp.

The content of the telegram turned out to be a request for approval from the base camp to resign as Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Empire of Japan in Manchuria.

(To be continued)